I don't have anyone telling me to change things or giving me unwanted opinions. It's just me and my band making music. It's nice for a change.

Only in Texas can mesquite have its own festival, then there's a crawfish festival, a festival for strawberries, everything has its own festival, with each town having their own yearly thing.

A lot of my buddies enjoy the writing part or the studio part, and I love the live show part. That's the reason I got into all this, to play keg parties and bars. I still love playing live.

I'm a channel surfer when it comes to radio, a little bit of everything.

Me and my band, we love playing live, and I think it shows. We have one of the better live shows in the state, and I think it's because we just love playing live.

I'm just trying to make a good record that my fans will dig.

I just love music, and I'm not as genre specific as most songwriters. A lot of my buddies just listen to country, or just Americana, or whatever their style is, and I just listen to everything.

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.

I refuse to live life with unsettled differences”.

If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

I am a queen because I know why how to govern myself.

Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

He's confident. He knows what he's good at and he has people around him to help him. (on Freddy Adu)

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.